Improvement in machines for dressing fellies



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Letters Patent No. 108,189, dated October 11, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR DRESSING FELLIES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe Same.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. RODEHEAVER, lof Miamisburg, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Im provement in Felly-dressing Machine; and I do here by declare that the following is a full and exact de scription of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters oi' reference marked thereon.

rIhis invention relates to machines for dressing fellies, and consists of certain improvements, to be hereinafter more fully described, for facing and planing the inside of bent fellies at` one operation.

In the drawing- Figure 1 represents a plan view, and

Figure 2, a side elevation of my improved fellydressing machine.

The main frame-work vof the machine I have represented consists of a foundation-trame, from which rise four posts, snrmounted by longitudinal beams, A A.

Across these are other beams, a, b, o, and d, the latter being a piece' resting on the beams A A.

C is a vertical shaft, carrying a cutter-head, which rises just above the table bed-plate B, the lower end of the vertical shaft resting in a step in' one of the lower cross-beams.

The upper end is held by a pivot-box, I), which is supported by a post, E, bolted to the upper front cross-beam.

The post E is adjustable iu height, so as to allow the shaft to be kept always firm in its bearings.

The pivot-box is also adjustable to and from the convex-guide, allowing the cutter-head to be set for cutting at greater or lesser depth.

C is a horizontal cutter iixed on its proper shaft, the cutter working through a throat in the bed-plate B. This shaft is driven from the horizontal shaft below.

F is a horizontal feed-shaft, having a feed-roller on its front end, properly arranged iu relation to the guide and cutters, and on its rear end a driving pulley, arranged over a horizontal shaft beneath.

The front end of the `eed-shaft revolves in a journal bearin g rcstin g on a post, F', which passes through a slot in the cross-beam d.

To the lower end of this, which projects through the slot, is attached a lever, c, pivoted at c', and adapted to carry a weight on the opposite end, the whole .being so arranged that the weight tends to draw down the post F and press the feedroller upon the folly.

Io the upper end of the post is iixed a foot', through which passes a thumb or cranked screw, the lower endthe frame, and its upper` end rotates in an .arm,f,

which is pivoted at f', and pressed forward by a spring, f", toward the front or vertical cutter. Its motion is limited and adjusted by a bolt, g, having a hook on one end, which'passes around the bar, and

on the other a thumb or tail-nut.

By this `device the pivoted bar, with 'the vertical feed-roller, is drawn back or allowed to move forward, thus adapting the parts to the size of the folly.

1I is a vertical driving-shaft in the rear of the machine, suitably held in bearings, and carrying a large driving-pulley, which drives the vertical cutter'- shaft.

I is a vertical counter-shaft, carrying lpulleys, as shown, driven from H, and communicating motion to the vertical feedshaft.

K is a counter-shaft, on the left-hand side of the machine, having a large cam-pulley, driven from a small one on shaft B', and also driving, through a small pulley, the lorizontal feed-shaft.

- L is a saw-mandrel, with saw attached, conveniently arranged on the machine, as shown.

The table or bed-plate B can be adjusted in height by set-screws, to regulate the depth. of the cnt. v

The curved guide-plate is iixed thereto for support ing the inside of the felly, the vert-ical cutter working through the throat therein.

O is the saw-table, with gauge attached.

The whole machine may be driven bya single shaft on the left-hand side.

When the machine is properly set, the operator `passes the fellies through from right to left.

The belt may be thrown from its shaft, if the operator does not wish to run the saw; but, in this sort of machine, if the drivingshaftV furnishes power enough, both may be profitably run at once by the operators.

Having thus fully described my invention, I wish it understood that the general arrangement of the driving-shaft and pulleys, which I do not specially claim, may be varied without departing from my invention. l

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The vertical cutter and shaft C, in combination with the adjustable step pivot-box D, :ind adjnstbined and arranged es described, for the purpose set able pivot E, when the parts are arranged ns described, forth.

for the purpose set forth. This specification signed and witnessed this 28th 2. The vertical feed-shaft Gr, in combination with day of May, 1870.

the pivoted bnr f, spring f2, and screw-rod g, :is de- VILLIAM H. RODEHEAVER. scribed. u Witnesses:

3. The horizontal feed-roller shaft: F, with F', ADAM CLAY,

, lever e, and thumb-screw, :ril the pzirts being com- AMOS K. CLAY. 

